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Mirage Hobbies(?) offer 1/350 'A86' class German torpedoboots. http://www.mirage-hobby.com.pl/Mirage350505A86NiemieckiTorpedowiectypuAIII561916 Tom

Mix and Match, Morantbay. Look at some other modellers' work on internet Use the vehicle colour on some, tweek it add a little white, black, or brown maybe or use similar greens on other bits to add some variation. Wood is of course a woody colour and sandbags could be as you said above. Remember that the red Vietnamese dirt/dust got everywhere. Tom

Nice to see the mode subjects are out there but why can't the manufacturers agree on one scale. My chairs pulled up and I've got a cushion as well this time. Tom

Fantastic looking build. So glad your horrible '24 is behind you know. I will pull up a seat for the next build if I may. Tom

Try and see if you can clearcoat the parts separately and then clean/scrape bare the contact areas that will be glued together. If you post the manufacturer, number and type of car it'll be helpful. Tom

Faraway, You've got a draw! Mine live in a smallish cardboard box (although not in t'middle of street) Unfortunately my budget doesn't stretch to too many AM pieces. So it's sand and scrape or scratch for me. Tom

Thank you both. Tom

Hi All, This stuff seems to come in aerosol cans. Any tips on application. Mainly thinking of a quick squirt when attaching PE. But the stuffs going to go everywhere. If I decanted (squirted) some into a jar would a brush or toothpick work or would it stick itself to the model? TIA Tom

So if the inch was internationally recognised as 25.4mm in the 1950-60's WHY did they have to put the .4 on! Couldn't they have used someone with a slightly smaller thumb? Tom

ISTR British tracks had a lot of magnesium in them. I think a little silver dry brushing will make those tracks pop. Tom

Funnily enough I lost my searchlight lens when doing my Oliver. I soaked some paper in diluted PVA and 'draped' it over the searchlight, then painted it as if the crew had been doing some maintenance and draped the cloth over the fitting as if they'd been clearing the periscopes. Tom My mistake it was a Daimler Mk. 1 A/C.

I believe the underwater part of the forefoot (running down from the figurehead was also copper sheathed. The yellow panels between the gun ports was applied only to the hull up to the quarter galleries (the bottom of the quarter galleries was black with gold/yellow detailing). Tom

I'll have another look and see what I can see. Looked! Can't see anything on the stc profile. However on the plan view there's a protrusion in the right position that's labelled P. V. Plane. There's no other detail visible, just 3 lines forming a narrow box against the bridge superstructure. Farther up the bridge side it goes from this sorta shape I______I with a kinda Amazon logo smile in it, to this \_______/ The museum was the NMM not IWM as I said earlier. Tom

The plans were amended in 1949 with some areas hashed (ticked through) over. From what I can see: (circled items) Paravane derricks port and starboard. 16' motor dinghies below the whalers on chocks and all searchlights 44" I have Stb profile and all decks/platforms down to main deck level. As an aside for anyone else reading. I have the same sets of plans for: Dorsetshire, Exeter, Eskimo and Abdiel Tom

Last weekend (for a completely unrelated to this thread reason) I was looking over my IWM as built plans of HMS Euryalus in 1/96 scale. As they were accessible I measured the length of a turret. 53mm which makes the real thing 5088mm (16' 8 1/3") long. Scaling that to 1/350 brings us to 14.5371mm My Agronaut kit's turrets measure 15.51mm So if the MM turrets are bigger than 15.51mm they are well oversize. (ISTR reading somewhere that Vanguard's turrets were bigger than the Dido/KGV turrets. If so I wonder if MM used Vanguard as a template for their turrets. Tom edit: Plans are still accessible if anyone wants anything sized.